Cameron Gorman, 3, searches for a butterknife as his great-grandmother, Patricia Savulchak, 73, tends to his one-year-old sister, Layla, at her house on June 10, 2017 in Esplen, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pa. Savulchak has kinship caregiver status over her great-grandchildren, after their mother died of an opioid overdose in March.

Patricia Savulchak, 73, sits with her great-grandchildren, one-year-old, Layla, and Cameron Gorman, 3, at her house on June 10, 2017 in Esplen, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Cameron Gorman, 3, sits with his one-year-old sister, Layla, at their great-grandmother's house on June 10, 2017 in Esplen, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pa. The two began living with with their great-grandmother, Patricia Savulchak, 73, who has kinship caregiver status, after their mother died of an opioid overdose in March.

Cameron Gorman, 3, holds a snake he found on a vacant lot next to his great-grandmother's house on June 10, 2017.

Read more about Patricia and her raising her great-grandchildren in the Arizona Daily Star.